AFP
Updated at 1:15 p.m. ET on 2021-02-16
A tribunal here convicted and condemned five Islamic militants to death Tuesday for the 2015 murder of Bangladeshi-American secular blogger Avijit Roy, but his wife said the verdict did not give her closure and the roots of such violence needed to be investigated.
The capital sentence by an anti-terrorism tribunal was the second one it handed down in less than a week against members of an al-Qaeda-linked militant group blamed for machete-killings of secular intellectuals in the South Asian country, particularly in 2015 and 2016.
In Tuesday’s courtroom action, a sixth defendant got life in prison for issuing a death threat to Roy over his writings against religious extremism, and for provoking the machete-killing, which took place in Dhaka on Feb. 26, 2015.
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